Stealing Kansas City: the Crime Song of Chiefsaholic

He was the most famous superfan of the Kansas City Chiefs. He never missed a game –- home or away. He was famous for his rubber wolf mask, weightlifter pants and unhinged passion. But come to find out the superfan known as KC Wolfman was funding his love of football with... crime!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ridiculous Crime is a production of iHeartRadio.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Elizabeth Dunton. Oh, Zaren, I've got a question for you,
my girl. Yeah, do you know what is ridiculous? Yes?
You would Sprits Sprits drink.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Yeah, this is a drink hard Seltzer and Sprintz's fizzy drinks. Okay, ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
You drink a lot of Seltzer water, right, like Sparkling.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Winter and Bartably and James.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
It's like the reference book a dead.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Stock place in Idaho. They just have crates of them,
like Ga Bartley and James Bartley and James Coolers.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
You've had too many Bartles and James Barima.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Not to drink that.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
So sparkling water.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
You like that, you know, drink all the time.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
I've seen it. I've seen you eating around here at headquarters.
You just carry a jar of Grillos pickles.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
I do. I do. If we could get in the fridge.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
If we could get sponsorship from Grillo's Newspapers dot com.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Oh yes, and those organic gummy bears. I eat all
the your.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
Organic gummy bears costco. Let's just get sponsored. I'll wear
a satin jacket with all the logos.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
On it'll drive a car that's wrapped in cost Yes.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
Yes, I'll wrap my subie. Uh So anyway, sprits st
there's hard Seltzers. Where am I going with this?

Speaker 2 (01:22):
I'm figuring it's either going to get ridiculous or a mashup.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
It's a mashup. So Grillos pickle hard Seltzer. I know,
don't be upset with with Grillos too much, but what
I mean they do. They're the world's best pickles. Amazing.
I love them too. A lot of times I sneak
into the kitchen here at headquarters and I eat your pickles,

(01:48):
so sharing spread your pickles. So then okay, so there's
the Grillos pickle hard Seltzer. So if you want to
eat a pickle and get a little bit of a buzz.
And then there's also floss and pickles pickle, Yeah, claws
and Pickles does sprit Society pickle by Clawson and it's
a wine based canned cocktail.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Oh Partleby and James.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
So they're kind of like a dirty Martini where they
put the put the the Brian in there, and you know,
I use Grillo's pickle Brian to brine chicken thighs to
deep fry for sandwiches. That is very good, So I
highly recommend that. But aside from this, so Grillos, they said,
quote people save our brind to drink and reuse. Yes,

(02:31):
long after they finished their pickles.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
I had a friend who used to crack open the
velastic and there'd be no pickles in there, and they
just had the juice. The Brian's sitting there on the
door of the fridge. Hot day in central California, which
just gets hot, hot, hot, hundred degrees. He'd go out
there and be like, oh, you know what, I need
some cool, cool pickle juice. And he would drink the
brine down like I was like, Billy starved. Yeah, now

(02:53):
he's a fantastic father. I don't know what.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
Heppened, well there it is. Maybe that helped. So the
Today Show did a thing. I couldn't bring myself to
watch the video of them sipping on it. I just
like to read things.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Is hard to tastes like the brian or tastes like
the pickle. It's a different taste.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
Well, it tastes like the brine and the pickle. I
don't pivot to videos. I didn't watch the video, but
it says that on their article, like a dirty martini,
both briny beverages need to be ice cold. So like,
it's my goal to be in the car with someone
on a hot day driving. Let's stay through the Central
Valley and someone's like, oh, I'm so thirsty, I'll beg

(03:28):
I got you, and I'll pull out a warm can
of hard Seltzer Grillos pickle juice.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
Pull it out from like underneath the driver's seat. There
you go, and.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
I've been sitting on it.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
It's nice.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yeah, exactly. They said that the Grillos is dill heavy.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Okay, that's the first good thing I've heard in.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
This and that the Spritz Society is.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
A sweet pickle Seltzer.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
Well they said sprit Society is slightly sweeter, but that
the Grillos one is not sweet at all.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
Have those butter chip ones or whatever.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
So yeah, if Grillos loves us the way we love Grillos,
send us some of this.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
I'm not fake yacking at your product. It's this mashup
grill It's not you, it's me.

Speaker 3 (04:06):
So yeah, that's u. That's it. That's that's weird. Apparently
the Gorillas is eleven ninety nine at various retailers.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
And well, you really you do want this society?

Speaker 3 (04:17):
Do you have to go to the website for Sprits
Society by Claus And that's two packs of four for
fifty bucks?

Speaker 2 (04:22):
Deal?

Speaker 3 (04:23):
All right? Cool, that's ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
It is ridiculous. I know in your commitment to mashupso
it never ending? Why do you make me suffer? Okay?
You know what? I got a question for you though,
another one? Yes, okay, you know it's almost football season.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
Right I do?

Speaker 2 (04:38):
Right? Do you can see me getting excited looking forward
to it and trying to throw the ball around in
the office. Yeah, well, Elizabeth, picture a man in a
wolf mask. Yes? Please? This man is what we in
the sports world call a super fan. Oh okay, yeah, yeah,
he was specifically the Kansas City Chiefs super fan. You're
familiar with the Kansas City Chiefs.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
Right football team? Yes?

Speaker 2 (04:58):
And their star quarterback, my man Patrick.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
Mahoney Patty Mahos.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
Yes. Well, this cat I'm gonna tell you about. He's
a bigger Patrick Mahoney fan than me. Really, he's a
way bigger Chiefs fan, because I'm not a Chiefs fan
at all. But Anyway, I'm just a Mahomes fan.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
So you're a fan of their quarterback, but not of
the team.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
Yes, fantasy football, baby, wearing that shirt the other day
with the said fantasy football.

Speaker 3 (05:19):
Yeah, that's what that is.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
I'm that geek. Anyway, this twenty eight year old guy.

Speaker 3 (05:23):
I still don't get it. But okay, I'll.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
Expect it to you sometime on All Long Drive.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
He was such a Chiefs fan he turned to crime
to be able to afford NFL tickets.

Speaker 3 (05:31):
Oh, I think you'd have to.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yeah, it's like they say, Elizabeth, you can't spell fanatics
without antics. This is ridiculous crime, a podcast about absurd

(06:00):
and outrageous capers, heists and cons. It's Oh, it is
ninety nine percent order free and ridiculous, Elizabeth Saren the NFL, Yeah,
beloved American tradition.

Speaker 3 (06:14):
Yes you like it. I don't.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (06:17):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
You don't watch football, No, I don't. You didn't grow
up in a family that watched No.

Speaker 3 (06:21):
I mean I've come from a baseball family.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
That's you and your brother like the A's are. Yeah,
well yeah, and my mom and yourn Yeah true.

Speaker 3 (06:28):
No, I don't. I mean I don't watch football, and
I think part of that is because of the CTE.
Isn't that what it is? Yeah? That bums me out.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
Okay, the brain traumatic or is it apathy.

Speaker 3 (06:41):
Or yeah, basically get the bonkers.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
The head making you become strange, sometimes violent often. Yeah,
instruction and the.

Speaker 3 (06:49):
Kind of plantation mentality, the whole thing, but gone.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
There was a lot about it, you know. But the
NFL is there for us, even if they're not really
there for us as fans. And then there's the whole
plantation mentalities not really there for the players either, But
we don't care. We still every Sunday we grit and
bar it and we go, why why, Elizabeth? Because we
love the game. Yes, we hate the commissioner, but we

(07:12):
love the game. It's yes, exactly. You know.

Speaker 3 (07:16):
The owners hate John Fisher, but I love the game.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
The players love the game, love the history, love the story,
sell the team by the way, team Fisher. Anyway, This dynamic,
this love hate dynamic, it can sometimes turn toxic. Now
why I can turn toxic because the fans, we care
so damn much, and we lose our minds, Elizabeth, We
lose ourselves in the fandom. Okay, the Philadelphia Eagles. Sure, okay,

(07:40):
they are a perfect example of what I'm talking about.
They're one of the best fandoms in sports.

Speaker 3 (07:43):
They're the ones to do fly Eagles Flying.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
That's the song.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
Yeah, I like the theme the songs for the teams.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yes, you know that you know more about football? You're letting? Okay, Well,
did you know that the Eagles fans once accosted Santa
Claus No, yes, Santa Clas Philly. The year was nineteen
sixty eight. The Eagles were enduring yet another terrible dismal season.
They were two and eleven at the time. The fans
were hoping that the team would continue to lose. Why

(08:10):
do they want them to lose? Not because nihilism runs
rapids in the streets of Philly. No, No, that's Boston.
The reason why the fans wanted to keep losing is
they had their eye on a really super talented college star.
He was about to come out and enter the draft.
One more loss and he was theirs. Right, so entered
the Minnesota Vikings in a snowy Christmas season game. It's
December fifteenth, week fourteen. Back then, this was the final

(08:32):
week of the season. Because they only played fourteen games. Right.
Eagles are marching down the field in the second quarter
and they score. This pisses the fans off, but they
start to boo their home team. They're like, what are
you doing? Ooh total Eagles fans. Right, they're booing because
the team scores. They don't want to see the Eagles score,
they want the l right, they're rooting for the el
So halftime rolls around. The game is now tied seven

(08:54):
to seven. Out comes the halftime show and it's a
ring with people, Yes, up with people. They were the
opening act. There's a replacement Santa Claus that's sent out
because the original Santa Claus flaked, right, So the Eagle
entertainment director dude's desperate. He's like running around the office.
He finds some twenty year old who thinks will fit
the Santa suit. He's like, hey, buddy, come here. So
he gets the guy in it and he dolls him

(09:15):
up as Santa in the costume. He shoves the kid
out onto the field. At halftime. He goes, just go
be Santa, you know, just wave. I don't know, yeah, okay,
heart is it? Yeah exactly. He goes out there to
irritate the already irritable Eagles fans there, right, so the
music starts up. Here comes Santa Claus. Here comes Santa Claus.
Right down Santa Claus line. Anyway, it's all jauntily playing

(09:36):
from the stadium, PA speakers. Right, what do the Eagles
fans do? They start to boom, They boo Santa the
get out of the boom. We want the l right
or whatever. That's not all. It's a snowy game, just
Ember fifteenth. We're in PA.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
I don't believe they play in the snow ps but
keep going.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
Oh my god. So the fans they make snowballs at
all the snow around the stadium, and they start chucking
them onto the field. Right, Someone's name is good. It
hits Santa in the head. The bear in the way
go a little askew, so hit something. Once of the
guys hit sand in the kisser. Now it's on. Now.
I was like, oh, I gotta hit Santa. So they're
all talking them they pelts. But not everyone can make snowballs.

(10:14):
Some people like, I don't know, I got somewhere impatient.
I don't I don't know how Philly fans are. But
they decided they just throw whatever they had in their hands.
So now beer bottles are coming down because they used
to sell beer in bottles at the stadium with beer bottles.
According to the guy who was the cousin of the
guy who went out there that faithful day of Santa
Claus quote, people are throwing their hooky sandwiches at him.

(10:36):
That is a quote from the news stories. Yes, that's
so pa it's almost too perfect of the detail. Anyway.
By the way, the star college athlete that the Eagles
fans wanted the team to tank their season four so
they could draft him. Do you know who he was?
You know this cat? His name, Oh Ja Simpsons.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
I was gonna make a joke Simpson and he'd be like,
oh Elizabeth, stop it, and.

Speaker 2 (10:55):
The juice was looking yikes. Yeah. The Eagles fans have
never been known for their good taste or they're decorum,
so God bless Amanda. They love the Eagles anyway. Now,
this undying tribal love for the home team. It's a
reliable energy in the NFL, right, and the love sports
in the NFL. They because they only have to play
sixteen games, you can really intensify and concentrate that passion, right,

(11:16):
so people, as profiteers on stub hubb will attest they'll
do just about anything for the tickets to a big
game because there's so few. Right. Yeah, people will reschedule
a wedding, they will cancel on a funeral. Then you'll
see stories of people missing the birth of a first child.
You know there's teams in the Super Bowl. Oh yeah,
they're like, honey, we got to reschedule the wedding. Oh god,
oh you like, do I have to be there? I

(11:36):
help make Junior out? So anyway, now criminals also know this.
Thus there's all the scams for Super Bowl tickets, and
then there's a whole general persistence of game day ticket scalpers.
Like even though today we have online ticket places, yeah, resellers,
you can still go outside of a stadium and there
will be scalpings. Oh yeah. Now you know who also
loves this diehard love of football fans. Who has found

(11:58):
a way to like, you know, capitalize on it. Problo
the cops. Oh problo. I love that hat though the NFL.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
I just shows up wearing a hat that says NFL,
I love all the teams I rooted.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
For the leagu I root for the game. Come on,
you should have a REFSAT like I rooted for the problem. Anyway,
nineteen eighty five was a year there was a multi
jurisdictional task force created to nap a ton of football
fan felons. So how did the cops do it? Free
football tickets? Oh? No, yeah, the game was a Washington
Commanders game. No, but since it was nineteen eighty five,
it was the old team name. Yeah. Anyway, the Washington

(12:31):
Football Club was really good at the time. Now they
were the defending Super Bowl champion. So the police get
an idea. They're like, I bet everyone would want to
go to a game, So they sent out a flurry
of letters right to the last known addresses for three
thousand different fugitives around the country.

Speaker 3 (12:46):
Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
The letters all claim that the recipients won free football
ticket to the December fifteenth, nineteen eighty five game. Now,
if you remember I said December fifteenth earlier, this just coincidentally
was the seventeenth anniversary of the Eagles versus Santa snowball game. Anyway,
this game featured Washington versus the Cincinnati Bengals.

Speaker 3 (13:03):
Is that who who day?

Speaker 2 (13:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (13:04):
Yeah, where they in the jungle?

Speaker 2 (13:07):
Yes, that's all I know. His uh, his fans at
Cincinnati Bengals. Their head coach Sam which he wants, had
to turn around and yell at the fans when they
started throwing stuff onto the field, and he goes, hey,
do you live in Cincinnati not Cleveland?

Speaker 3 (13:22):
Ohuch.

Speaker 2 (13:24):
I always thought that was a great one. Anyway, in
the jungle, all these lucky winners were invited to come
to a Washington, DC convention center where they would be
hosted for a winner's brunch. They'd receive their tickets, and
they'd be shuttled to the game, and one lucky winner
would win an all expenses paid trip to the that
year's Super Bowl. Right to the day comes, the cops

(13:44):
are waiting hidden in the Washington DC convention Center, like
Geeky came with us, were doing this so anyway, they
watches this first group of felons arrived to claim their tickets.
I gu's really working guys, right, And the felons were
met by cheerleaders. They were NFL team mascots and they
go totally convincing schrade. Right at the they had a
band playing. People are just pumped up to be there

(14:06):
amongst this crowd is also one hundred and sixty six
cops is undercover fellow.

Speaker 3 (14:14):
Jails.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
They're from different departments all across the country, so you
know they're wearing like brand new Jordan's and a hat
backwards and holding a basketball exactly. So I have the
three thousand invited felons, about one hundred end up showing
up to claim their tickets.

Speaker 3 (14:27):
Well yeah, because the rest of them are like, I
got warrants, I'm not going on.

Speaker 2 (14:30):
Some are just like what, I ain't going for tickets
or as well, yeah, good call. So their identities get confirmed,
they're like you have idea stars that Oh yeah, here
you go. Did I win my tickets? Right this way?
So they take the felons in groups of ten to
twenty into this back room where they're supposed to claim
their tickets. They're supposed to also fill its a paperwork,
or so they're told. They step into the back room,

(14:51):
they get met by the spokesperson. It's all smiley faced
and charismatic and they're from the company that's hosting this party.
So the charismatic spokesperson they start answering any questions the
guys have. They greet the winners and then once everyone's
in the same room. They close the door all of
a sudden someone you'll surprise, right, and then suddenly a
bunch of cops run into the movie and they arrest them. Yeah, dude,

(15:12):
there's people from the US Marshalls, the DC Police, just
lots of agencies, right, you name it. They were there
with handcuffs. You can only get my guy, right, So
this fishing expedition netted serious offenders. They ended up capturing
two of the top ten most wanted list members. What
what the FBI was like stoked on that one? Yeah,

(15:32):
they were like, yeah, just some free NFL tickets.

Speaker 3 (15:35):
Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
So you know the old saying, if something sounds too
good to be true, it's the FBI. So oh no,
the bus was hugely successful, right. It was cheap as
hell for the costs awesome compared to the cost of
trying to track down one hundred, it's just a hundred,
let alone the three thousand. So this is the super
cost effective bus. Now, the head of the US Marshals
at the time, his name Elizabeth was Stanley E. Morris Stanley, Yes,

(15:59):
and he said, I think of it, kind of bragging
about how well his operation had gone up you know,
it was a multi agency It wasn't just his right,
but he was like pretty much running it because it's
the US Marshals. They have the jurisdiction over the entire country.
So he's like, quote, it's a safe and clean, creative
way to get these people off the streets. There's no
safer way to make an arrest than away from the
home environment. We try to use our brains rather than

(16:21):
what's on our hip.

Speaker 3 (16:25):
You know that Stanley Morris grew up to.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
Be who O J.

Speaker 3 (16:27):
Simpson.

Speaker 2 (16:28):
There you go there, So I'm glad these cops aren't
out there using their tutus or whatever else they have
on their hips. Guns right, guns like.

Speaker 3 (16:38):
Those belly dancer belts with all the bells.

Speaker 2 (16:42):
I love that. I maybe, yes, free tickets is better
than shooting people. So you got a good point. You know.
I'm not norbly going to say this, but well played, cops.

Speaker 3 (16:53):
Well played you are, Stanley. You're a bang bong genius.

Speaker 2 (16:56):
One last detail about this Master rest plus. After all
was said and done, the task force heard from another
seventeen fugitives who could not attend the reception, but they
wanted to know how they could pick up their free
tell they had a root awakening for them when they
coordinated the pickup O. Listen, if I told you all
about the unhinged passion of NFL. Yes, I told you
about using free NFL tickets to bus criminals. Now, how

(17:18):
about the story of an unhinged passion of an NFL
fan who used crime to score free NFL tickets. Yeah,
I can mind it all.

Speaker 3 (17:24):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (17:25):
I can't wait. And doing so, he became the most
famous Kansas City Chiefs fan. Yes, we'll take a break
and then I'll tell you all about it after this. Cool.

(17:51):
All right, Elizabeth, we're back.

Speaker 3 (17:53):
Hi.

Speaker 2 (17:53):
Okay, you're ready for the story of the Kansas City
super fan. Okay, it all started with his mom. Here's
what you think. Oh, it's gonna start with this dad. Nope, sorry,
with this Yeah, boy and his mother. She loved the Chiefs,
the chefs, the Chiefs. She she loved her son, she
loved the Chiefs. So she decided to combine those loves.
She's like, I'm going to share my love with the

(18:14):
Chiefs with my boy. So it became the special bond
between them. It was like a constant for them. In
a harsh and rather often unfeeling world. She was a
single mother, things were tough for her. I feel like
James Earl Jones over here, but his speech from the
Field of Dreams popped into my head when he's like
the one constant through all the year's ray has been football.
America's rolled by like an armory of steamrollers. It's been

(18:36):
erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again, but football
has marked the time. Okay, apologies to W. P. Kinsala
and James Earl Jones. He's of course talking about baseball.

Speaker 3 (18:49):
Apologize you apologize to baseball, right.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
But football is you know, football is the one anyway.
My point is for James Earl Jones was like speaking
of their constant right. So this mother and their son's
love of the game, Well, I'll just I'll turn to
the dude he once tweeted, and I quote she raised
me by herself and took me to my first Chiefs
game when I was three. Oh wow, oh yeah. And

(19:12):
then this game was not just memorable for the three
year old boy, but apparently there was a fan there
that day, the fan who sold them the tickets to
the single mother and her boy and then had his
own seats there in like the same section so we
could watch them enjoy the game. Simpson remembered, Yes, O. J.
Simpson was there that day, very generous when he was young,
he was anyway, he clearly remembered this fan. He clearly

(19:33):
remembered Xavier. That's the dude. The super fan's name is Xavier, right,
so he remembered Xavier watching the game. Three year old
boy remember as he stood over his mother to protect
her from the harsh sun above. This is hot day
and Arrowhead Stadium, which is a big bowl. And that
was a three year old boy making sure his mother
doesn't burn, right, sweetheart, This kid's name is Xavier Baba

(19:55):
d'Or baba dar b a b u d a r
Babadar babbadic baba dar Yeah, way, Baba duke, No, I'm sorry, Xavier.
I'm trying. Nobody until local press said at the same
Xavier Bee, Xavier b. He's now twenty eight years old, okay,
maybe twenty nine now, I don't know his birthday. He
was twenty eight years old earlier this year. Now by
all accounts, Xavier is why these are considered as they said,

(20:16):
Kansas City is quote best.

Speaker 3 (20:17):
Known fan's gonna give it to you.

Speaker 2 (20:19):
Yeah, he's there, super fan. Now, dud would rock up
to Arrowhead Stadium that's where the Kansas City Chiefs play
every game, never missed a game. That's eight games the season,
every season going back to twenty eighteen, never missed one.
He also made it to every single away game. That's
super hard. Yeah, it's a criss crossing the country. He
was always dressed the same basically. I mean he would

(20:39):
have slight variations. But he wore a very large rubber
wolf mask. Okay, why you know he wanted something iconic, right, No,
but they're known as the wolf Pack.

Speaker 3 (20:48):
Oh the Wolf.

Speaker 2 (20:51):
See wolf is their mascot. So he was doing like
a in the stadium version of the mask.

Speaker 3 (20:56):
So it's like the big Boss Wolf, the Chief exactly.

Speaker 2 (20:59):
The big Boss. So there he is with a full
rubber large rubber wolf mask, a Chief's jersey or some
kind of red chief's shirt, right you know. And typically
he finished this look off with a pair of those
wild tiger stripe brightly colored weightlifter pants you know.

Speaker 3 (21:16):
Pants.

Speaker 2 (21:17):
Yes, well, Elizabeth, I wanted you to get a look
at the guy. This is him, Oh honey, yes, the
whole look, the pants and everything.

Speaker 3 (21:27):
So he's got the red shirt and the orange pants and.

Speaker 2 (21:29):
He would walk the stadiums. He'd park like miles away
and walk in with the full mask on, the whole bit,
just building up intensity and energy for all the fans. Right, Yeah,
my dude kept it proper. He never showed up to
a road game with his wolf mask looking all raggedy,
or his jersey stayed with some like fast food. No,
he may have driven cross country to Seattle, but he
showed up proper because is Monday night football, baby, you

(21:50):
know it good for the fants, right, So he'd be
out there on the prole representing, as I said, the
wolf Pack. Yeah, no, that's the nickname for the Chiefs fandom.
But they also have another one, the Kingdom, so you
can hear them refer to either as the Kingdom or
the wolf Pack interchangeably. Wolf Pack was the first nickname,
Kingdom now with the more official.

Speaker 3 (22:06):
And they never it's just like the Chiefs.

Speaker 2 (22:08):
The Chiefs fka. I know a lot of indigenous peop
who are big fans because the Chiefs isn't more of
an honorrific. It's not like oh I see you see,
It's like the Trojans, it's not a there's nothing negative
about the Chiefs. So a lot of Indigenous people I
do or I have known in my life, were fans
of the Chiefs.

Speaker 3 (22:24):
Yeah, but they call themselves these things. And so it's
like with the Raiders the black Hole.

Speaker 2 (22:29):
Exactly, Okay, a raider nation, right. So the Kingdom the
wolf Pack. I prefer that one speaks more to who
they are than the Kingdom, you know, because it's a
loyal crew. It's a pack of wolves. I like the Kingdom.
They are apparently subjects of someone who's thereown. I mean,
who's the king of the Anyway, it doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 3 (22:50):
Track an animal until it's exhausted. They wear it out
and they laugh among themselves and then strike.

Speaker 2 (22:56):
You know. Wolf Pack's a perfect example for hungry fans. Yeah, anyway,
the full pack. They love this guy, right Xavier. He
didn't just show up to games and go wild for
his team. He created an online persona for between the games.
He's out there on Twitter. He's posting stuff. He's the
team's number one super fan. He's tweeting at the team,
he's tweeting out all the stars. You see him everywhere
on your social media, right, he cultivates his online persona

(23:18):
bigger than the like he's cock. Sure, he's this high
stakes gambler because he's posting photos of these big bets,
big baller like I'm talking but Midwest style. So it's
like a local casino.

Speaker 3 (23:28):
What does he do for a living? That's a good question,
you'll get there.

Speaker 2 (23:31):
Yeah, he's never really addressed. Yeah, he would show off
these tens of thousands of dollars of bets on a game, right,
So he wants bet one thousand dollars during a game
a specific Chiefs player would score a touchdown. Right, But
he didn't pick like Travis Kelcey, who's like the star
tight end. That's a pretty solid bet he's gonna score.
You want him in your fantasy football team, right, Yeah,
And he didn't pick a starting wide receiver he picked

(23:53):
did he pick me? He picked Jody Forston? Is that
Jody Forston was the backup tight end, so pretty much
the only people watching Jody forced him play that day
were his family and like maybe somebody on a really
sad fantasy football team who's like, I need forced to score.

Speaker 3 (24:07):
Right, So he's not all like first string.

Speaker 2 (24:10):
He's on the side. He's slightly ahead of me in
likelihood of scoring. Like that's how GE's just slight. Anyway,
He's like to, you know, diehard Chiefs fans, and they
know who he is. Most football fans don't even know
this guy's name, right, So yeah, that's the guy he picks.
He bets a thousand dollars on him. The Vegas bookmakers
set the odds at eighteen to one, which is really
that kind of healthy odds.

Speaker 3 (24:31):
Yeah, I would say I thought a bit sep.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
Oh yeah, completely, They're like, oh, whatever, kid, go for it, right,
he bets down. He puts down a thousand dollars bet.
Two thirds of the way through the third quarter, the
Chiefs are up thirty one seventeen. Patrick Mahomes finds forced
him for a ten yard score, meaningless score in the game.
Nobody cared. Chiefs are up thirty eight seventeen. They go
on to beat the Bucks forty forty one. Thirty one
doesn't even matter in the score. But for Xavier bob

(24:54):
Dor that play was huge. He just made eighteen thousand
dollars on a meaningless touchdown. Wow. And as the super fan,
of course, he goes nuts. So he's in this on
social media, okay, and then their run up to the
playoffs and their eventual Super Bowl appearance. They've appeared twice
in the last four years for them, they were not
the favorite. This last year they went to the Super Bowl.

(25:14):
Last year they were not the favorite.

Speaker 3 (25:16):
Did they play?

Speaker 2 (25:17):
The Bengals and the Bills were both kind of ahead
of them all season long as being the favorites.

Speaker 3 (25:21):
Who did they play in the Super Bowl?

Speaker 2 (25:22):
Oh? They played did he filled Ulph Eagles? Oh?

Speaker 3 (25:25):
Sweet? What are you talking about? The other two teams,
the Bengals and.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
The Bills, they were the AFC teams that they playoffs,
so they were the heavier favorited teams throughout. So if
you were putting down a bet, you would have gotten
pretty good odds for the Chiefs for a pretty good
long while there. Early in the season, right, well, the
Chiefs were, as I said, not a favorite. So when
they were playing the Buffalo Bills in the playoffs, somebody
placed a eighty thousand dollars bet, damn thousand dollars bet

(25:50):
for them to win, right, So this is not the player.
This was a Week fourteen, right, So it's not even
in the playoffs, not even the playoffs. They need to
like win this to kind of like build momentum and
hold momentum going into the playoffs. Eighty grand on a
random Week fourteen game. I think it's Week fourteen anyway.
They Hollywood Casino in Kansas City. They got so excited
about this eighty thousand dollars bet. They posted the betting

(26:10):
slip right. The local news they run with this news story.
The national sports press picks it up. It becomes like
who made this bet? Right? So eventually you know, you
know who replaced the ridiculous bet. But somewhere from the
casino sportsbook tweeted that he'd personally accepted the bet from
Xavier Bobadoor, better known as Chief Sawholic, the super fan
of the Did he.

Speaker 3 (26:30):
Give his permission to say that online?

Speaker 2 (26:32):
The tweet was later deleted, so I don't think he did.
So it didn't matter though, because the Buffalo Bills went
on to win the game, So whoever placed that eighty
thousand dollars bet lost it all, So, you know, no,
When he did win, though, which was often, that seemed
to be how he paid for his travels, people were like, Oh,
he's winning all this money. Of course, that's how he's
paying for big sports book bets, right, So that made

(26:54):
sense to most people about how he was everywhere a
Chiefs fan wanted to be right, and now I'm talking
he was literally everywhere. He was at their first super
Bowl in twenty twenty. Not only that, he was on
the field, Like that.

Speaker 3 (27:05):
Was their first super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (27:07):
No, No, they've been in Super in the recent years.
They've made a super Bowl in twenty twenty and then
last year there so I'm saying too, not.

Speaker 3 (27:12):
Confusion, in the last say ten years.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
Yes, in the last say ten years.

Speaker 3 (27:15):
So I was like, wow, good for them, they finally
did it.

Speaker 2 (27:18):
Yeah. No, they were actually a really good team. They
had some tough years there, but they have been a
historic team. They were in some of the first super Bowl. Ok,
it doesn't matter, but got it in Super Bowl in
twenty twenty. There was a Super Bowl they were in.
He was on the field. That's the kind of access
he had, and what kind of money he was paying
for the tickets. So on social media he posted photos
of him with the star Travis Kelcey, the tar tight end, right, Yeah,

(27:39):
that's the one everybody wants. Right then he was also
the Travis Kelcey said on Pat McAfee. He's a former
player who has now a radio show. Anyway, he said.
Travis Kelcey said about this guy quote, I might have
shaken his hand in passing, but didn't even know I
was shaking the hand of a legend.

Speaker 3 (27:54):
The players players call him a legend right now, didn't aside,
Did they have COVID protocols in the NFL.

Speaker 2 (28:00):
In twenty twenty, Yeah they did.

Speaker 3 (28:02):
They pay and he was still on this on the field.

Speaker 2 (28:04):
Yeah, well yeah, I don't know. Maybe he was messed up.
He had. He wears the Wolf Master Elizabeth. He's COVID safe.

Speaker 3 (28:09):
It's got like a respirator built into it.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
Talked like Baine.

Speaker 3 (28:12):
That's awesome.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
So the other fans in the Wolf Packed, the Kingdom whatever,
they all envy the super fans proximity to all their heroes.
He never misses it. He's American Express. He's everywhere you
want to be.

Speaker 4 (28:21):
Right.

Speaker 2 (28:22):
Also, he goes to other games. He goes to Phoenix
Suns games because they're in the area. For that that's
like part of the market. It's I don't know, it's
a thing. He went to the Phoenix Suns.

Speaker 3 (28:30):
Games, right, But how are they in the market of
for the middle the city.

Speaker 2 (28:34):
For the Midwest. Not far of a drive for people.
Oh really, I mean it's not it's not easy, but
it's not terribly. He's like, you know, you're willing to
go to a big game. You're like, oh, I'll go
to down there anyway.

Speaker 3 (28:43):
Anyway, Okay, I'll play along.

Speaker 2 (28:45):
So the Phoenix Suns game was in twenty twelve, and
this dude who went with him said, quote, I hate
to say this, but he almost represented the Kingdom. You know,
I almost envied him. I wish I could go to
every single game, like that's my dream. He was living
the dream. But was he living the dream a little bit?

Speaker 3 (29:00):
I feel like he was or.

Speaker 2 (29:01):
Was he stealing the dream? Oh, since he's on this show,
I think you know the answer. So two months after
he allegedly made that eighty thousand dollars bet and lost it,
Xavier bob Aduer disappeared. From the wolf Pack's view, They're like,
he wasn't at the Chiefs Houston's away game, right, and
we all expected to see him. And not only did
he not make the trip, he didn't post anything after
the game, no memes, nothing, silence. Everyone's like where's the

(29:25):
Chief's aholic? That's how he's known online. Right, So people
in the fandom, they start pointing out his absence, They
start noticing that he's gone. They go to Reddit and
they go is one person put it quote there are
literally thousands of people concerned for his safety. Right. Another
person posted quote, if anyone has seen him or is
able to help them, please do your things Chiefs Kingdom.

Speaker 3 (29:43):
Does anyone know his real name at this point?

Speaker 2 (29:45):
No? Not really. Okay, so someone else, they tweeted at
the Chief's official Twitter account. Yeah, quote we have a
missing fan. Help if you can.

Speaker 3 (29:53):
Yeah, wellness check. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (29:54):
So, Elizabeth, your people got to work the online sluice
special investigators. He didn't take your folks long to find him.
A teacher's assistant from Tulsa, Oklahoma. She was the one
fellow Chiefs fan she found Xavier. Rather, she found his mugshot.
He was locked up in Oklahoma jail. He was being
held on charges of bank robbery. Yeah, Xavier Bobber walked

(30:17):
into a Tulsa teacher's credit union in Bixby, Oklahoma, in
the morning of December sixteenth. He walked up to a teller,
Missus Peyton, Garcia, he asked her. She asked him rather
how he was doing that morning, and rather than answer her,
the superfan known as Chief's Aholic he pointed a gun
in her face and told her to hand over all
the hundreds in the drawer or he'd shoot her. Right
when she hesitated, he jumped over the counter. He kicks

(30:38):
over like the plexiglass COVID shield or whatever. He shoves
his gun in her face and tells her open the vault. Right.
So he guides her to the vault with his gun
in her back. Right.

Speaker 3 (30:47):
Oh No.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
After he gets a bunch of money, a bunch of money,
Xavior allegedly walks out of the bank, hops on his bike,
and rides.

Speaker 3 (30:53):
Away his bicycle.

Speaker 2 (30:54):
His bicycle, no bicycle exactly he earlier. So the police
in Bixby, Oklahoma, they're on it, right. They got nothing
to do with Bitchby, Oklahoma. So they just surround the area,
closed down the perimeter. They nabbed chief Saholic a few
blocks away from the bank. He's apprehended, arrested. On his
person they find a black pellet gun, the co two

(31:16):
kind a paintball mask, some ski goggles, disposable gloves, green
on green sweatpants and zip up jacket and in his
bag one hundred and fifty thousand.

Speaker 3 (31:25):
Dollars he wore like the opposite of the red.

Speaker 2 (31:29):
Would never know it's me. So he gets booked in
a Tulsa jail and charges of assault, robbery the firearm
while masked or disguised in Oklahoma. He's now looking at
five years behind.

Speaker 3 (31:40):
Oh my goodness.

Speaker 2 (31:41):
The teacher's assistant who found him, right, They found them
in the Tulsa County booking sheets. They posted Chief Saholic
mug shot online. This is him that you could say
Billy white shoes Johnson. That mug shot went viral in
the online sports world. Everybody's talking about it because it's
like amazing that the super fan got busted. Robin Banks
pay for it. That's not how his mom or tickets

(32:02):
are expensive. Well, anyway, big question was, wait, who is
this Chief Saholic? Are you telling me that this random
guy and a wolf mask may have secrets of his own?
So people, now that they're learning about the wolf guy,
are you telling me a dude and a weightlift your
pants and a plastic mask who somehow is at every game,
gala and team event may have some something to hide.

(32:23):
Looking back, he did have a habit of tweeting strange things,
like there was the time he tweeted that he kept
disposable nitral gloves in his car for you know, normal reasons, Elizabeth,
like eating fast food he doesn't want to get and
also pumping gas if you eat fast I read it.
I was like, Elizabeth, to pump gas, Yeah, nitral gloves apparently, Well, anyway,
that's why he's like, that's why I have all these

(32:44):
disposable gloves in my car.

Speaker 3 (32:45):
Why bring it up? Yeah, anyway, So he's not like
someone was like, hey, what's in your car?

Speaker 2 (32:49):
I noticed in the back of your offer on his own,
by the way, if you see all the disposal gloves
in the back of the car. Anyway, because the Chiefs
fans unraveled this mystery of where the super fan, chiefs
Aholic was in Eastern Oklahoma jail, so they still didn't
know who he was, right. That took a little more
online digging. Meanwhile, the Chiefs had made it to the playoffs, Elizabeth.
They were set to face off against the heavily favorite

(33:11):
Cincinnati Bengals, but chiefs Aholic locked up. Despite all his
high roller act. He needs money, he needs he's both.
His bail is two one hundred thousand dollars. He needs
to post about twenty. He has just one chance. He
made a bet. He'd placed five grand on Patrick Mahomes
to win the Most Valuable Player Award. He'd also placed
five grand on the Chiefs to win the Super Bowl.

(33:31):
That would take a little more time, but the MVP
would be announced soon. If Mahomes won in time, he
would have the cash on his hand to go post
his bail and still have it in time to make
it to Arizona for the super Bowl. If he won
both bets, he could win one hundred thousand dollars. He
could be back on top. He told his lawyer his plan.
We'll take a little break and I'll tell you how
his plan pay it off after this. Oh man, all right,

(34:12):
so we're back, Elizabeth. Is the excitement thrilling? Three years?

Speaker 3 (34:15):
This is fascinating to me because, like, I don't know
a whole lot about this stuff. I mean, I don't
know if you could tell.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
That no, no, you're doing really well and keeping up.

Speaker 3 (34:22):
I do know another football team song, that one, We're
the forty nine.

Speaker 2 (34:27):
He used to stop right there. Yeah, we don't do
forty nine er stuff in this house.

Speaker 3 (34:31):
I'm trying to think of other ones that I've heard of.
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (34:34):
I grew up in Niners fans and their team was ascendant.
I hated it. I had to hear all this Niners stuff.
I'm like, my parents will be good again someday. Arnt it? Anyway?
So my man and I used that term loosely. Chief's
a hollock.

Speaker 3 (34:47):
I thought you were going to talk about Patty Mayhoe,
Patty may Ma homie.

Speaker 2 (34:50):
No. No, but we'll get back to him in a second.
So dude is a watching the AFC Championship game from
inside the Tulsa lockup. He's bummed, right, He sat there
with all the other inmates, squat and watching a tiny
TV in the day room.

Speaker 3 (35:02):
He's made a wolf mask out of like.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
Toilet paper wrapper, so storry goes. He got so fired
up in other inmates had to tell him to calm
down or they like beat him up, like multiple times,
like I'm serious, man, you know why I'm in here, Like, seriously,
sit down.

Speaker 3 (35:19):
That's another thing I'd love footage of. I want footage
of the guys with warrants getting posted in that room
like locked in and corralled, and I want footage of
him watching the.

Speaker 2 (35:29):
Championship game in the in the Kansas City lockouts also
lock up rather well. The Chiefs won the game, so
they beat the Bangles Congress. That means the Chiefs for
back in the Big Dance, Elizabeth. They're going to the ball.
Xavier posted online apparently I don't know from jail. You
can put the wolf in a cage, but he's still
gonna howl for his team.

Speaker 3 (35:50):
So he's either dictating that over the phone.

Speaker 2 (35:54):
The Twitter passors put this in there. It's gotta go up.

Speaker 3 (35:57):
Now he's got a phone that he's not supposed to.

Speaker 2 (36:00):
So my man mahoone, he did the second part or
the first part of Xavier's big bet. He wins the MVP,
so now he's got the money to get out so
he can make it to the super Bowl. So his
long shot bet pays off. His lawyer quickly petitions a
judge to reduce Xavier's bail. Bail gets reduced. Judge knocks
it down from two underground to eighty grands. Not only
us only has to put up eight thousand dollars. Posts bail.

(36:22):
There's one condition. He has to wear a GPS ankle
monitor and he can't leave the state. Oh no, Yeah,
so no super Bowl for him. But his attorney told
ESPN he's a big fan. The fans want him there clearly,
so he's petitioning the ESPN. I don't know to like
talk to the judge anyway. Despite a high ankle sprain,
Patrick Mahomes is in the playoffs. He gets a highkle

(36:42):
sprain in the playoffs. He's going to Super Bowl. High
ankle sprain.

Speaker 3 (36:45):
It's an injury, so it's higher up on the ankle.

Speaker 2 (36:48):
It was like mid Cafrica.

Speaker 3 (36:50):
His ankle got high, his ankle got.

Speaker 2 (36:52):
Super cheap and Shong dup. No, his ankle was basically
injured in no way that makes it really painful to run.
So he's like basically running around on like a like
a wooden peg leg, but it's still his leg.

Speaker 3 (37:04):
He shot him full all sorts of.

Speaker 2 (37:05):
All the goofy pillows. Yeah. So but my man, Mahoney,
he guts this game out. He gets his team back
to the Promised Land, back to the super Bowl. And
you know, I said, I'm not a Chiefs fan, but
I was stoked for this game. Now imagine how the
Chiefs Aholick felt because Patrick Mahomes had he had basically
willed his team into the Super Bowl and now he's
back out.

Speaker 3 (37:24):
Yeah, the temptations, Kerrie's Kruger whatever was the gymnast girl
who screwed up a Rankle Oh, Kerry Strugg, Kerry Strugg,
he was Kerry strugging it up up.

Speaker 2 (37:34):
Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, he was for the US exactly
everybody's USA. But they're saying Chiefs go or whatever.

Speaker 3 (37:39):
In your fantasy football, you pick individual players. So I'm
gonna guess by your fervor that you have Patty Mayho.

Speaker 2 (37:47):
I had Patty Mahoney. He took he took my team
to the super Bowl. Okay, where I promptly lost, but whatever,
he got me there, So I was. I love the
guy anyway. As I said this, dude, at this point,
he's redlining on right. So he tweets the cant City
Chiefs are going to put the hurt on Philadelphia and
will be hoist in the f in Lombardi in Glendale.

(38:08):
And that's Glendale, Arizona, not Glendale, California. That's so sure enough.
Dude gets released from jail with the ankle monitor four
days before the Super Bowl. What's gonna go down, Elizabeth?
Is he gonna go yeah? Do you think so? Well?

Speaker 3 (38:22):
Sure, you just wait until the last second and then
you cross the lines with it and like they're not
going to rest you in the middle of the game.

Speaker 2 (38:29):
Oh, you'd be surprised.

Speaker 3 (38:30):
Or if they do. What a great story is that
I'll do anything. I'll do anything for a good story.

Speaker 2 (38:35):
Such a writer's answer. So Chief's a halic. I need
to tell you a little bit about this guy, just
to give you some context so you can make a
better decision about it. If he's going to go to
this gamer Okay, fellow Chiefs super fan. A guy is
known as almost Andy Reid.

Speaker 3 (38:47):
Almost almost Andy.

Speaker 2 (38:48):
Reid is the head coach. Okay, chief, So this guy's
almost almost I'm like a body double.

Speaker 3 (38:54):
Wait wait wait, wait, does Andy Reid the guy who
went to the White House? Yes, with the watermelon talking
about the That is the most charming video I've ever seen.
I just knew it was a football man and he
went to the White House and he was interviewed later
and was just raving about all of the food that
they had. But it was like, wasn't it like chicken tenders,

(39:15):
like every kind you could imagine, like special sauce, special sauces,
all these amazing sauces, and then just the hearts of
water mask something else. I don't remember what it was,
but it was amazing and I love him and I
know I know what his name is.

Speaker 2 (39:28):
There you go. So that was it for winning the
Super Bowl.

Speaker 3 (39:31):
Okay, that's all coming together.

Speaker 2 (39:35):
And he put it a quote almost Andy Reid said,
nobody really knew the guy behind the mask other than
the fact he would show up on game day at
crazy and take lots of pictures with people. All right,
that's all the fans know about him, right till game
day when he disappeared. That was enough, right, that's sure.
But now some fans have actually had gotten to know
them over time. There was a John Perkovich who the

(39:55):
New York Times talked to and they identified him quote
as a man who puts on rubber duck, races in
his backyard and gives away team gear to other fans. Yeah,
that's who he is. So this dude. He often posted
picks on Twitter of him in chiefsholic, like playing tennis
and tennis, Yeah, playing tennis like the Sharks and the
full the Wolf mask. He also in a voicemail that

(40:16):
he'd received from a chief Saholic when he scored on
a big bet, so people were like, hey, man, what
do you think about this? So once the dude Chiefs
Hawk was known as a Tulsa County inmate number, wehe
blah blah blah, Berkovich had to back off on their friendship.
So he's like, I didn't even know his last name
until it got released with the news of his arrest.
He also later on said I was not close to
him personally in any aspect.

Speaker 3 (40:37):
Don't limp out like that fair weather friend, you know, Yeah,
unless he does something absolutely heinous, like particularly haneous.

Speaker 2 (40:46):
He really particularly heinous, I will warn you of that.

Speaker 3 (40:49):
Yeah, then like stand by him.

Speaker 2 (40:50):
Yeah, there was the one to support him, but no
turn on him like Peter on Jesus. Yeah, I mean, like, anyway,
so there's this young woman who may or may not
have dated Chiefs the Halic. They had met on Twitter,
where he had, by the way, about forty to fifty
thousand followers. He was really popular, right, so in social branding,
he's what we call a big deal. Anyway, Elizabeth ESPN

(41:11):
Sports Center. They would he would be often featured on there.
He was on Monday Night Football when he was on.
So this guy was like you know to her, wolf
mask guy, and she was like you so dreamy mad whatever.
She was twenty three years old. She was a student
getting her masters at Arizona State. Ghost Sun doubles. Anyway,
she was originally from Kansas City and thus a diehard
Chiefs fan. That's how she found Chiefs on Twitter. They

(41:32):
meet up in real life. Her name, by the way,
is True, So last name I will just hold to
protect her identity anyway, t are you e yep? True? True? Yes?
That is correct?

Speaker 3 (41:42):
Is that true?

Speaker 2 (41:43):
That is true? Girl? So when True asked Chiefs the
Halic about his life, of course he lied. He said
he was I'm a student too, right, He was not
by all accounts. He was essentially homeless at this point,
or if you prefer it, I'll put it in better terms.
He was living the van life as a online sports influencer.
Slash bank robbers write better, huh So anyway, so he
told her he was close with his mom, that part

(42:03):
definitely true. He said he had a nice apartment in
Saint Louis some neighborhood. If you were from the Midwest,
you're like, oh, yeah, that's a great neighborhood. He did
not have an apartment there. Anyway, My girl, true master's
student Arizona State, bleed red Cheese fan. She spends time
with him. She said, uh, quote, I study forensic psychology.
I watched all this true crime and stuff, and I
was like, is this a little suspicious? But obviously I

(42:26):
told my family about him, I told my friends about it,
and he has all these followers on Twitter. I did
just expect that he would be arrested in Tulsa for
armed robbery. Girl, watch more true.

Speaker 3 (42:37):
I'm here to tell you that the forensic psychology class
is an undergrad not going to prepare you for anything.
Listening to true crime not going to prepare you. Look,
she's hooked up with Jimmy Red Flags.

Speaker 2 (42:50):
Okay, so the Super Bowl, Yes, did Chief sa Hall
would break his court order home arrest and make a
run for Arizona to see Patrick Mahooney and the chiefs. Yes, Okay,
answer that, Elizabeth. I'd like you to close your eyes
and pictures.

Speaker 3 (43:03):
My eyes are closed.

Speaker 2 (43:04):
It's the Super Bowl twenty twenty three. Dateline State Farm Stadium, Blendale, Arizona,
February twelfth, twenty twenty three. You are among the tens
of thousands of lucky Super Bowl ticket holders. Only you're
not here for the game. You are working. You are
a bounty hunter extraordinary, yes, known for working with a
vanload of trained animals. You typically use your pack of
dogs and trained birds to locate and encircle your target,

(43:26):
but today you're working alone. It's a Super Bowl, no
animals allowed. You're here to find one man among the
tens of thousands of fans. At the moment, though, it's
halftime and Rihanna is at the center of the field
performing or halftime show. But you're not watching. You're one
of the few. But anyway, why because you're working. You
push through the concessions crowd. As you push through the

(43:47):
concessions crowd, and you're looking, where's chief Saholic? Where chiefs Sahulic?
You wonder? You have about a ten grand bonus riding
on this one, so you aim to bring in your mood.
You're taking your relatively new to you job as a
bounty hunter very serious. All those hours you spent watching
The fall Guy with your brother trapped. They're finally yaing off.
You are could ziebers as you hum the theme song

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to yourself under your breath. You scan the dudes coming
out of the men's room. None of them are wearing
a wolf masks or stripe weightlifter paints. Okay, move on.
You hear the crowd roar to life. As the second
half of the Super Bowl is underway. You decide you
need to get some elevation so you can scan the crowd.
You climb the staircase up to the nosebleed seats. You
pull out your binoculars. Scan the crowd. No wolf masks

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in sight. You're also paying a little attention to the game.
Now the game is kind of catching your attention. You
did see Patrick Mahomes leave the field with an ankle
injury in the second quarter. That made the crowd go ooh,
But you spot them. He's back on the field now.
Patrick Mahoney is on one. He's going to win this game.
It looks like you take heart from him. You hike
up higher into the nosebleed seats, greater visibility. Elizabeth, Yes,

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binoculars again, no wolf masks. Okay, you see plenty of
people who look like they jump bail to make it
to the super Bowl, but none of them are Chiefs.
Of how you were certain he'd be at this game.
There's no way he'd miss this game. You go and
you find a new vantage spot. You also buy some nachos,
so you sit down. You're eating your nachos. You'll put
your binaccios down for the moment. You watch the Chiefs
march down the field. Mahomes is chased out of the pocket.

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He scrambled somehow, He's scurried to the Eagles four yard line.
Crowd goes wild. Isaiah Pichenko punches it any with a
one yard touchdown run, and the Chiefs are back in
the game. Now down by three, you check the scoreboard.
Eagles twenty four, Chiefs twenty one. You say, to hell
with this guy, Chiefs the haul, because if he's not here,
at least you can enjoy this game. It's the fourth quarter.
Now the Chiefs take the first lead when Mahomes fines

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Cadarius Tony for a five yard touchdown. Tests boom, the
Chiefs are up for their first lead of the game.
Chiefs twenty eight, Eagles twenty seven. You spill what's left
of your nachos. When Candarius Tony returns a punt sixty
five yards and it's tackled at the Eagles five yard line.
Late in the fourth quarter, Chiefs extend their lead with
another Mahomes touchdown, this time the sky Moore. You high
five the silver haired couple next to you. Both are

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decked out, all read for the Chiefs. This game is incredible,
you think to your so you can see it's like
why someone would rob a bank to be here. You
casually check the crowd again for Chiefs the Haulic, but
you put your binoculars down. You go right back to
the game. Eagles score, tie, the game up, five minutes left.
The Eagles team song by Eagles swells through the Arizona Stadium.
You're attempted to sing along. Momentum has shifted. You've entirely

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given up on looking for Chiefs the Halic. Now you
join the throngs of cheering Chiefs fans. It feels like
the whole kingdom is there to root on Patrick Mahomes
as he does the amazing, the unexpected, the truly legendaries.
He leads his team down to the Eagles two yard line.
There's nothing the Eagles defense can do. Chiefs kicker Harrison
Bucker comes on, breaks the tie game with a last

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second field goal. David the chief the victory you throw
with the whole wolf back, the rollicking sea of red
presently losing their minds at Patrick Mahomes And what the
Chiefs did you think? Man? What a shame? Chiefs Halic
can't be here to see this. Come to find out, Elizabeth,
Chiefs the Haulic never left Oklahoma.

Speaker 3 (47:00):
Oh he was a good boy.

Speaker 2 (47:03):
Yeah, he had to watch the game on TV, like
just like all the other porschemucks who don't rob banks
to afford tickets. But Super Bowl over football season ended obviously,
and talk of the game fell away. Time passed, the
world moved on, but then came March of this year.
Chiefs the Halic was back in the headlines. On March
twenty seven, six weeks after the Super Bowl, The New
York Times reported quote Xavier bab Adour, known as Chiefs

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a Halic, missed a Monday court hearing on charges that
he robbed a bank in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The court and
his bail bondsmen are looking for him. Boom, Chiefs the
Halic is on the lamb Elizabeth. Oh no, he didn't
do it for the super Bowl. He just does it
for I don't.

Speaker 3 (47:37):
Know, like X and on training camp.

Speaker 2 (47:39):
Yeah. Quote, be on the lookout for a man in
weightlifting pants on a rubber wolf mask. It goes out
everybody is supposed to be looking for dude. The thing was,
he had a hearing. He was supposed to be in
court and missed that. But that was also because his
bail bondsman had reported that his GPS ankle monitor had
been removed from his ankle. So apparently they found it

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in some trees behind a big box store in Tulsa, Oklahoma,
and the strap was cut. They checked his motel room
where he was supposed to he had to he was
required legally to stay there on trial because he lives
in Kansas City. Yeah. Yeah, but they were keeping him
at a Tulsa motel. So they go there, motel room, Elizabeth, empty.

Speaker 3 (48:16):
Why wouldn't you take the bracelet off and leave it
in the motel?

Speaker 2 (48:19):
I don't know's that's what I would do. Yeah, i'd pay,
I'd get put it on some kid like, hey, walk around, kid,
here's eight one hundred bucks. Have fun all day long. Anyway,
So his bail Monsman is stunned that Xavier aka Chiefs
the Halic has split the bailed Monsman. By the way,
is his cat named Michael Lloyd. He'd given the court
eighty thousand dollars on a bond for Chiefs Aholics, So
why would he do that? Because he is also a

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chief superdre everywhere. So this Oklahoma bail bondsman just dude Lloyd.
He said, quote, I did want to help him because
he is Casey Wolfman. I followed him for years, and yeah,
I wanted to help him. What is crazy is I
still want to help him. I don't wonder what future
historians and lingos are gonna make of our shift in
terms of the use of the term follow. We use

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it so casually. Yeah, but there's always this kind of
culty feel like right at the edges when you talk
about it, and it kind of jumped out when the
bail bondsman's is like, I did want to help him
because he's Casey Wolfman. I followed him for years to
follow Casey Wolfman to glory. Anyway, the wolf Man he's
in the wind right, so his lawyer doesn't know where
he is. Chiefs the Hawk is gone to his lawyer.

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By the way, is Tracy Tiernan equally surprised? They said, quote,
I didn't know anything about it. I reached out to
him and have not had a response. I cannot believe
this super fan is missing that I headed the last
part anyway, So meanwhile the kingdom leaps into the void
and they offer plenty of speculation. Fellow fans assumed Chiefs
the Hawk was busted into Oklahoma. That means he was
on his way to Houston before the Texans road game.

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That means he was probably robbing the bank in Bixby.
That means he probably robbed banks before all the road games.
That's the season. He's probably doing nine banks, maybe ten
banks this season if they're making the playoffs. Oh so
I'm doing this since twenty eighteen. They figured he's robbed
forty to forty five banks if he's done won each games. Wow,
of course this is all fans speculation.

Speaker 3 (50:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (50:08):
Officially, he gets charged with a robbery of six banks
across multiple states. So one thing for certain, Xavier Barbadour
still had a few outstanding bets to cash in and
to fund his time on the lamp. So one there
was a super Bowl bet to cash in he was
still looking to win his brand or about ninety grand
on that he placed the bets in Kansas City, which
means he'd have to go to Kansas City to cash

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in the winnings. Yeah, and the FBI had documented he'd
been doing this a while quote Barbadour purchase and redeemed
more than one million in chips from various casinos in Missouri, Kansas,
and Illinois between April and December twenty twenty two.

Speaker 3 (50:40):
April and December one million.

Speaker 2 (50:41):
Yes, wow, Like basically a six seven month time he
went through a million dollars in casino chips. So yeah,
there's no telling how many chips he had waiting to
cash in. So meanwhile, over on your corner of the
Internet on Reddit, the fine folks have Reddit rooted on
this newly minted folk hero. They imagine what would happen
if Chief Aholic could basically stay a fugitive until next

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football season. They're like, what if he shows up at
the first game? Right, So, knowing what you now know
of football fans and what you've learned today, when I
think was the redditor response to this news that chiefs
the Halic might show up to the NFL games. Oh here,
I'll give you a little Yeah. They were responding to
an article from the site Pro Football Talk, and in
the article it ended with this kicker quote, if he's

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not caught before football season, we'd recommend against any other
fans showing up at Chiefs games wearing a wolf costume.

Speaker 3 (51:28):
Oh, they're all gonna dress like you. Yes, I love it.

Speaker 2 (51:31):
So it's like a like a glove drop before a duel.
The fans are like a challenge accepted by So they
all show up having their full I am spartakiss moment.
And so one of them undercover Chimp wondered, quote, what
if folks showed up in masks wearing that costume? Right?
Another One Night one seven imagined quote, No, all Chiefs
fans show up in a wolf a costume. I am

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chief Saholic. No, I am Chiefs Saholic. So he wants this, right,
Sam Bradford's ACL. That's a quarterback, Sam Bradford. Sam bradfords
ACL added quote, I think all Chiefs attendee should take
one for the team and make it a Where's Waldo situation? Yes,
sadly we didn't get to make it to the new
NFL season that starts in about a month, because Chief

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Sahulic was caught this month. Yep, we never got our
Where's Waldo? I am Spartaca's moment. He got caught in
July about forty five minutes from my hometown of Davis,
up there in the foothills of Sacramento, in the formerly
tiny town of Lincoln, Oh Okay. That was the end
of his run, right there, the old country, exactly right
when it starts to turning there anyway. Starting with Instagram
posted back in August twenty eighteen, just before the new

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Chief season, That's when Xavier became Chief Saholic. His first
expression of Chief Saholic Elizabeth was a SpongeBob SquarePants meme,
and with that meme he came into being. Now one
month later he put on the mask. The wolf Man
was born. He posted a photo of himself in the
full rubber face mask. He's like Football's bane. He's like,

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no one cared who I was until I put on
the mask. But really it all started back when he
was that three year old with a single mother at
Arrowhead Stadium. That was his Rosebud moment. As an adult,
he becomes his outlaw ful hero to reclaim that feeling
of love and connection that one can only find as
a boy at Arrowhead Stadium. Yeah, my acting wild, becoming
the beast, you know, becoming the wolf man. He led

(53:17):
the kingdom, he finds his new home, and yes, he
made ridiculous work for him, so we applaud him on that.

Speaker 3 (53:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (53:24):
Unfortunately NFL game super expensive, so we had to supplement
his income with some sideline crime. We thank him for
that anyway. But basically this is like a citizen Kane
became a bank robber instead of a newspaper mogul. That's
how I see this story. Interesting. But really, ultimately, Elizabeth,
I'd like to think that he did it for the club.

Speaker 3 (53:41):
You know, you know, are you doing it for the
club or are you doing it for you? He's doing
it for the club.

Speaker 2 (53:46):
My man, Bane might say, you think darkness is your ally,
but you merely adopted the doc I was born in it,
molded by it. See that's my bad, Bane. But by
the way, chiefs the Hawk is looking for are for
his story.

Speaker 3 (54:01):
So Hollywood, excepting Chips, write a book.

Speaker 2 (54:05):
I'm sure he's working.

Speaker 3 (54:06):
I think I think that all the fans should still
dress like him out of tribute. Oh I like that.
You hear that?

Speaker 2 (54:12):
Cheese fans show up proper, respect, exactly respect for the
wolf Man. Lastly, as Patrick Mahomes led the Chiefs to
that truly incredible come vec victory, I tried to recreate
for you Chiefs, the Halic took to Twitter. He posted
a video a fellow jailbird, Takashi six y nine. He
posted the song Guba but Elizabeth, Just so you know
she's not making any sense, the photoshopped a wolfhead mask

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onto Takashi six nine's head, And since I know you
don't know this, the video opens for Guba. Takashi Aka
is the name of the song. Yeah, Gooba's the name
of the song. Takashi six nine is a rapper, Okay, okay,
he's one with all the tattoos on his face. He
was to be a snitch for a long time in
Cord anyway, So he chiefs the Halic puts the wolf
head on him like photoshops, right, And the beginning of

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that song starts that with Yo Matt, I'm back, big Man,
Big said, ha ha, don't cast day mad, right, So
that's that's lyric. That is basically the essence of football
fandom distilled right down to it. So, Elizabeth, what's our
ridiculous takeaway?

Speaker 3 (55:11):
Dressed like the Wolfman at the shows.

Speaker 2 (55:14):
Dressed like the job you want at.

Speaker 3 (55:15):
The shows, at the football shows.

Speaker 2 (55:19):
That's all I got for you. I hope you beautiful. Thanks.
Getting ready for football season. I'm gonna be coming in hot. Anyway.
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We don't have enough Twitters, we need Twitter.

Speaker 2 (55:41):
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